Valuable reasons to have EHR in an Emergency Department
Any changes that can improve health care in an Emergency Room is valuable to have regardless of incentive or convenience. There several important and valuable reasons to implement EHR in the Emergency Room.
- It can save lives
- Increases patient and family comfort
- Improves health care quality
- Reducing wait times in emergency rooms because of Patient tracking
- Cost Savings on paper and repeated services such as labs, radiology, and allergy testing.
- EHR immediately identifies allergies and medication list before the patient is seen.
- Provides communication between ambulances and emergency departments to prepare for patients arrival.
- Every procedure done in the ER can be tracked through the EHR system and analyze every move done by the physician
- Communicate with other hospitals to obtain patient's medical history
- Emergency room physicians are more aware of recent specialist visits
- Reduces radiation exposure because of less repeated radiology services
- Access to radiology and lab records from any clinic or hospital